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Nothing Personal with David Samson

Season saved! San Diego Padres fire pitching coach!; Will MLB be getting a salary floor? (8/24)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘relieved’ as in you’re fired as in please hand in your clubhouse key and ID as fans must be relived because the season has been saved! What are we talking about? The San Diego Padres have fired pitching coach Larry Rothchild. Why? (12:25) More news has been filtering out about what really happened to Tyler Skaggs. The LA Times released unsealed documents about just how horrible former Angels employee Eric Kay acted in this case. Kay is alleged to have been getting drugs for at least five Angels players. What can MLB do now? (27:20) Review: Reminisce. (30:20) Steve Cohen responded to our story yesterday when we were critical of his tweets. HORSE HOCKEY! (32:55) NPPOD. (37:55) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me about the proposed MLB salary floor. Is this something that would be in the new CBA? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:49.7

Relieved. Nothing personal word of the day today is Tuesday, August 24th, and I'm

0:54.9

worked up. Coke has worked up. Two stories at least that we are going to dive deep into. We're

1:00.5

going to talk about what's going on in Los Angeles with the Tyler Skags death and what is going

1:07.2

on with the FBI and everything else. But we got to start with relieved because as you know,

1:13.0

I've relieved many coaches of their duties. The San Diego Padres fired their pitching coach.

1:18.6

There are 36 games to go. The San Diego Padres are cratering. Tatees is playing Blake

1:30.5

Snell. Remember when they remember in the good old days when the season was starting?

1:36.7

The Padres had Darvish and Snell and Patek and Musgrove and Machado and Hossamer and Myers and

1:43.5

Sleepie and Snooze and Dopey and Drupi and AJ Preller said we want to be competitive. We want

1:51.2

to win this division. We are built to win the World Series and I said, AJ Preller can't build a

1:57.2

World Series team. AJ Preller shouldn't have a job as a general manager, but he does. AJ Preller

2:03.6

should never do a trade with the Tampa Bay race, but he did. If the race are trading to Blake

2:08.4

Snell, don't take them. It's quite simple. Don't take them. If they're trading rich hill to the

2:13.7

mats, don't take them, Stevie. Don't take them. I'm just a fan. What do I know? Just don't take them.

2:19.8

Larry Rothschild, longtime pitching coach Yankees Cubs doesn't matter if he's a rookie pitching coach.

2:28.4

When I fired coaches, it was in April or May. Maybe June sometimes.

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